Angry GOP Town Halls Have Them Blaming George Soros For Their Incompetence!

At least this insufferable lawmaker does town halls. Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) holds a town hall. Her constituents were not happy.

The 45th/47th President of the United States will hold his Joint Session to the Congress on Tuesday. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will invite the president and his cabinet to the House chamber to discuss his policies and every controversy facing the world.

It will be the first of many.

Republicans are met with angry town halls.

What are they gonna do? Blame George Soros and the left as expected.

Johnson calling angry constituents, "paid actors" and dismiss the concerns of Americans as the previous administration's fault.

Soros is the billionaire who donates to progressive causes. The Republicans have vilified him. Even though he has retired from active work, his name is always mentioned whenever the Republicans are facing controversy.

Anytime the Republicans face pressure, they will pivot to culture wars and blame games. President Donald J. Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Department of Government Efficiency Secretary Elon Musk are the most unpopular figures in American history.

Trump and Musk are billionaires. Vance is a millionaire. 

The public is souring on billionaires. 

The supporters of former vice president Kamala Harris are playing on the "we tried to warn you" nonsense. Like she would have been better.

Former president Joe Biden’s base warned him that the support of Israel was going to cost him and her their elections. 

Trump’s base is warning him that cutting federal workers, all this "flood the zone" nonsense, inflation, egg and gas prices are wrecking him and Vance.

The vice president was on vacation in Vermont. The residents in the town he was staying "flood the zone." The vice president would soon head to an undisclosed location.

Republicans hold their town halls. The ones who actually do their jobs are met with angry constituents. Almost similar to the 2009-10 Tea Party protests.

Rep. Keith Self (R-TX), Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-TN), Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA), Rep. Mark Alford (R-MO), Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) and other Republicans are frustrated with Trump over the "flood the zone." 

Some have cut town halls all together.

Party leaders suggest that if lawmakers feel the need to hold such events, they do tele-town halls or at least vet attendees to avoid scenes that become viral clips, according to GOP sources.

A GOP aide said House Republican leaders are urging lawmakers to stop engaging in them altogether.

The town halls, and the rash of negative headlines, have been the first bit of public blowback for members who face voters next year. And the new reluctance to hold them indicates there are bubbling concerns about the impact the cuts could have on the GOP's chances of holding its thin majority in the House next year.

The viral nature of video clips spreading from one district to another means a bad confrontation in safe Republican territory could influence voters in battlegrounds.

The GOP-led House is trying to enact even deeper spending and tax cuts through legislation that could add as much as $4.5 trillion to the national debt over the next decade. But much of the tension focused on billionaire Elon Musk, the face of President Donald Trump’s effort to unilaterally eliminate jobs, contracts and grants. Musk, who is a “special government employee” advising Trump, did not require Senate confirmation to take his temporary post.

“Obviously we’re very aware of those headlines,” a Republican National Committee official familiar with the dynamics said.

“I don’t know that a specific edict is going to come down from on high that they need to stop or anything, but a message I believe has been clearly sent that this narrative should end very soon,” the official said. “Probably the best way for that to happen is no more town halls. Elon Musk’s work still has the administration’s support, period.” 

Beyond that, White House and party officials say the majority of the public wants the budget cuts.

"The president's policies are incredibly popular, and the American people applaud his success in cutting the waste, fraud and abuse of their hard-earned taxpayer dollars," said Danielle Alvarez, a senior adviser at the RNC. "Pathetic astroturf campaigns organized by out-of-touch, far-left groups are exactly why Democrats will keep losing."

A Republican lawmaker who spoke to NBC News on the condition of anonymity to avoid publicly divulging internal party strategy, said that the RNC has been helpful in making suggestions about how House Republicans can handle the situation but that it stopped short of trying to impose an impossible-to-enforce moratorium.

Lawmakers are spooked enough about the prospects of heated exchanges that most of them do not want to do town halls anyway, this Republican said. 

A chief of staff to a House Republican who has won handily compared the dynamics with tough town halls in the 2018 midterms. While Democrats won control of the House that year, GOP lawmakers in Republican-heavy districts may have benefited from a backlash to the criticism.

“It’s 2018 all over again,” the aide said. “The town halls, if anything, helped in districts like ours.”